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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-05
NEWS OF THE MoR,sINe

ElsTERx.-Senator Stanford is credited
with the statement that the Southern Pa
cific Company will soon control the Oregon
and California Railroad. 1.-The U. S. Grand
Jury in Brooklyn has indicted Chas. Ogden
Ferris for Sarah Branagh claims
to be the legal heir to the Stewart estate.
The Citrus Fair in Chicago drew many
visitors yesterday and last evening.-....C has.
H. Sheriff., Agent for the Southern Pacific
Company, died yesterday in Washing
ten-A terrible railroad accident occurred
near Republic, o., yesterday, resulting in
the death of % persons. Two others were
killed by an accident in Massachusetts, and
three in Wisconsin......B By the strike in the
Pennsylvania coke region 5000 persons are
thrown out of work.....A Cincinnati lad OF
sixteen years, who had appropriated small
sum of money, committed suicide......In
Rowan county, KY. Mason Keeton, alter
wounding John Rogers, was fatally shot.
FoREIGE.-It is said the English Liberals
are not cispleased,at Goschen for having
gone over to Salisbury. THE British Par
Lament has been prorogued until January
27th.....The National League received $25,-
900 from the United States the last fort
night....-.Thirty miners were imprisoned
in a colliery near Brussels yesterday by an
explosion, and several dead bodies have
been recovered.
PACIFIC COAST. Two young men of
Marysyille have been arrested on suspicion
of having committed various thefts......
Phoenix, A. T., is 10 have a steam fire en-
gine..-A father and son yesterday pleaded
guilty in Salt Lake Of unlawful cohabita-
ton THE MERGED authorities have driven
all loafers, opium fiends, etc, out of the
place.. The Republicans in the Nevada
legislature have given their caucus nomi-
nation to VIM. NJ. Stewart for United States
Senator....It is believed that 2. Cronan
was murdered near Lewiston, Trinity
county, November ID.
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CITRUS FAIR IN CHICAGO.
Another Letter from One of the Commits
sioners-Fruit Frozen Ell Route.
CHICAGO. December 90. 1856.

EDS. RECORD UNION: You have undoubt-
edly received dispatches from here con-
corning the transplanted Central and
Northern California Citrus Fair 1t was
expected that the exhibition would be
opened tomorrow evening, but it will not
be in readiness for anything more than a
formal opening. There is great amount
of work to get such an exhibit into proper
shape for public inspection, and our force
is very small, when compared with what is
to be done.
To tell the truth, good deal of the fruit
arrived frozen, but we can exhibit it here
in that condition. l do not think it is all
frozen, but it is certainly all chilled, which
will render it unfit for use after we are
done with it in the fair. We do not antici-
pate that the desired influence from the ex-
hibition will be reduced on account of the
exhibits getting frosted en- route; but, of
course, it is within the line Of possibility
that it may fall down" on US after few
days from that cause. The thermometer is
now 160 above zero, and 1 suppose il is re-
garded as quite comfortable for this part of
the country and the season of year. The
snow is shallow on the ground, and the
greatest mixture of wagons. slelghs and all
sorts of vehicles are in use and crowding
every street.
To one who has not been in the East for
many years past, and seen the develop
ment and growth of the country and cities
everything is full of interest. This city is
stirring one and has large community
One street is said to be twenty miles long,
and the city generally presents grand con-
glomeratiUn of streets, avenues, canals,
wires, alleys, boulevarGs, parks, street rail
roads-both cable and horse-with twenty
steam railroads running through the city
Added to this the great traffic by Lake
Michigan. which brings alongside the city
every class of steamers and sailing crafts,
and picture of commercial activities
and possibilities presents itself with almost
amazing effect.
The railroad depots here-,and buildn. s
generally are on a large and magnificent
scale One new wholesale dry goods store
is large enough 10 accommodate the trade
of all the wholesale houses of every kind
in Sacramento, or, if cut up into rooms,
would comfortably house every resident of
Auburn. Our development sipon the Pa
citie coast is very far down the scale conf
pared with the great East: but if they can
out-top Us in grand structures and costly
edifces, our California climate overtops
and oyerturns everything, and places our
sunny Pacific heritage as the grand El
Dorado to which the longing eyes of the
cald-stricken and winter locked people OF
the East anxiously turn during at least five
months of the year. J. j. NJ
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THE LAW OF SOCIETY.

The Chicago Inter Ocean tells with
tragic pathos story of inhumanity, that,
if recited in fiction, would be pronounced
as extravagantly unreal, and libel upon
society. A young orphan girl, hardly
more than child in years, MANNED by
the loss of an arm, a telegraph operator by
occupation, in the bitter cold of Christmas
Eve is turned out upon the street, wanders
starving, desperate, half-crazed and freez-
ing on the chief highway of Chicago, and
finally, falling upon the icy pavement, be-
comes mother Her babe is found dying
of cold; the mother, driven to insanity,
had left it, and staggered along the street
filled with merry holiday-keepers, until a
policeman seized her, cast her into a
prison, and preferred against her charge
of infanticide. Here she was left to suffer
and moan in her delirium instead of being
taken to hospital, a half-dozen of which
were within easy reach. Her betrayer,
an operator in the same telegraph Office,
is unmolested, retains his place, is socially
received, his very name scrupulously kept
from the public, and all the open shame
and crushing responsibility that should
rest on him, is visited upon his young vic
tim, whose name to the hour of the dis
closure of her ruin had been as fair as that
of any. The Inter Ocean, in its indigna-
tion over a state of society that permits
such discrimination and brands infamy SO
unequally, loses its temper and calls for
the revival of the old Dutch law, which
gave death to whatever man betrayed an
orphan of the State. The cowardly tolera-
ton of society is the interpreting arm that
shields men and women from the Just de-
serts of such inhumanity as our contempo-
rary narrates. There are thousands Of
humane people ready to lift up the fallen
and succor the sinful in the bitterness of
their woe, and it is singularly unfortunate
that in the Chicago case to none of these
did knowledge of it come.
Social laws are often one-sided {;
even the written law of the land
is discriminating 10th treat such
double crimes" as Holland put it, I'M
justly, "looking upon one party as a
fendp and the other as innocence itself.
1t has been said that laws can never be re-
spected that are not Just. 1t is a mistake
the laws of society for the weaker sex visit
upon woman the sin Of both victim and
perpetrator, ard are respected. There
need be entertained no hope for
better state so long as women
themselves countenance the code as it IS.
In their hands Is the remedy; when they
refuse to recognize men who traffic in
female virtue; to smile upon those who
accomplish the ruin of others daughters
when The house-door is closed upon the
betrayer as upon the victim; when they
deal ont the justice they would exact, men
will maintain their DEGREES, and the social
law VIII no longer be one-sided. Until
woman herself reforms the social code, it
will remain FIST as il is
But how can SIC accomplish this BY
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Major Beck Found DroXned.

The San Francisco Post of last evening
states that shortly after 8 o'clock Yesterday
morning George Howe picked I'D dead
body off Washington-stree wharf. The
face was so far destroyed as to render iden-
tifcation by that means impossible and it
was not until the body had been taken to
the Morgue that, from letters found in the
pockets, the body was proved to be that of
Major Robert Beck, whose disappearance
was chronicled yesterday. Major Beck left
his home, 1921 Devisadero street, at 4
o'clock in the afternoon of the Thursday
before Christmas, and was not again heard
of until his body was found this morning.
In his pockets were his gold watch and
81 10 in coin. His keys, knife, glasses,
scissors, rule and comb were likewise
fund. For some days before his disap-
pearance Major Beck was noticed to be act
ing strangely. He had been a sufferer for
years from rheumatism and neuralgia, and
it is supposed that rendered insane by his
troubles, he wandered away and drowned
himself. Nearly all the letters found on
the body related to the Jersey cattle in
which Major Beck was dealing. He was a
member OF the Sacramento Association of
California Pioneers, and on the informa-
ton of bis death being received the flag of
The Associations hall was placed at half
mt s.. At a meeting of the Association last
evening the following committee was ap-
pointed on resolutions: VIM. Johnston f.
NJ LaRue, VIM. p. Coleman. The COM
mittee appointed to attend the funeral.
which Will take place in San Francisco this
afternoon, consists of Messrs. Luther.
Farnsworlh. Mott, 0schwald, Powers, Call
l.sh, Allen and Woodward.
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Appreciation of Successful work.

There is not, in any country, a greater in
centive to the development and improve
ment Of section than its newspaper,
which. well conducted in the interest of
the people. soon Yields an influence which
is surprising. California newspapers are
noted for their enterprise and have done an
immense amount of work in building up
this wonderful State. The latest comes to
US in special edition Of the RECORD UNION.
of which Ei Dorado county residents have
just cause to feel proud. Every county of
Central California receives attention, but
few have more marked attention shown
them, or are more ably represented than FL
Dorado. Our county is not TO be exeelled y
any in the State for its wealth, taking min
erai and agricultural together-a fact which
many realize. The fearless championship
of our cause, and the splendid account of
our resources contained in the REcoED-
UNION, will be of immense advantage to
this county in the future. and the effort of
our Sacramento contemporary should meet
with the hearty support of our citizens.
The edition met with such favorable re-
eaption from the officers of the Immigra-
ton Association that they at once ordered
printed 5000 copies extra for circulation
throughout the East Mountains Democrat.
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Two Youths Who are Supposed to Have
Committed Robberies.

Committed Robberies.
CHICO. January 4th.-Y esterday forenoon
officer Finn, of Marysville, quietly arrested
young man named Fred Raymond, on
suspicion Of being implicated in series Of
burglaries and stage robheries in Northern
California recently. Last evening the same
officer took into custody a young man
named AL. Carleton The parents of the
young men reside in this city. Raymond
has been under arrest before for robbery
Carleton has been employed for several
years past as a dry-goods clerk, and al
though always considered " fresh" he was
never thought to be dishonest He has
been known and called a dude" A
freight car was robbed at Marysville some
weeks ago, and the authorities believe they
have strong proof against the two prisoners
After this stage was robbed and mum.
Der of burglaries took place. Severa
teamsters were stopped on the public high
way, and stage was stopped near Oroville
Carleton and Raymond are thought tc
have been the perpetrators of these crimes
Officer Finn thinks that Carleton was thc
short man of the 0roville stage robbery
He has been a constant reader of dime
novels and other blood and-thunder litera
ture. He is about 49, years old. Raymond
is about the same age. Young Raymond's
brother was recently released from Sar
Quentin prison. Young Carleton puts OF
bold front, and says that his arrest is all {
mistake. He was taken to Marysville thi:
morning. The arresting officer got his cue
from girl in whom Carleton confded hi:
socrets
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NEWSPAPERS. OF THE UNITED STATES
The 16lst edition of George P. Rowell g.
Co.'S American Newspaper Directory"
has Just been issued, and is not only valu-
able to extended advertisers, but also fur
nishes much data of interest 1t shows
the total number of newspapers and Pc
riodicals published in the United States is
14,1e0. OF these 1,2l6 are dailies, Al tri-
weeklies, 152 seini-weeklies. 10.6S5 week
les. 65 bi-weeklies, 247 ssmi-monthlies,
1908 monthlies, 26 bi-monthlies, and 124
auarferlies New York has the largest
number of publications coming under the
designation of newspapers and periodicals,
amounting to 1,577, and Indian Territory
the least-haying only 6. California has
81 daiiies, iri- weelslies. 10 semi-weeklies,
295 weekiies. bi-weeklies and semi
monthlies, 81 monthlies, bi-monthly,
quarterly-total. Ali.
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Their Only Medicine Chest.

DEERLoDGE (Montana), Dec 16, 1855.
I have been using Brandreth's Pills for
the last thirteen years, and though l have
had nine children, l have never had a
doctor in the house, except three times,
when we had an epidemic of scarlet fever,
which we soon banished by vigorous use
of Brandreth's Pills. ! have used them for
myself, two or three a night for a month,
for liver complaint, dyspepsia and consti-
patton. In diarrhea, cramps, wind collie,
indigestion one or two Brandreth's Pills
fixed the children at once. A box of Pills
is all the medicine chest we require in the
house. We use them for rheumatism,
colds, catarrh, biliousness and impure
blood. They never have failed to cure all
the above complaints in very few days.
WILLIAM w. B. MILLER
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-05

w. H. Jordan Speaker AsseuSly-SIR: On the
following committees the Caucus made no
choice but offer the following names, from
which you are kindly requested to make your
selections
Chinese and Chinese NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
han Spurgeon, Colbert, Seavey and Britt
Claims-Smythe, Lewis, Colbert. Granger and
Mathews of San Benito.
Commerce and Observation-Disclosures, Cohen,
Lewis and Ohleyer.
Education-Morgan, Lawrence, Hotchkiss
and Young.
State Prison-Mitchell, Adams, Morgan, Cru
well, Mathews of San Benito, Toner and Brooks.
Ways and Means-Mann, Venable, Hotchkiss,
| Cohen, Ohleyer, Lewis and Henry of Butte.
Public Buildings and Grounds-Regan, Britt,
| Cope, Smythe, Rucker, Hart, Allen Henry and
| Hotchkiss.
Yours, ALLEN Henry, Chairman.
A NJ LAWRENCE Secretary.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-05

might we'll BE- set apart BY the Legislature
as California Arbor Day, and as Il is al
ready holiday no new vacation
will nc created. We trust that this will be
done or that sense other day will be fixed
upon as wisdeE, may determine, and that
stsicient encouragement val be given by
she State % insure the success of the
movement
The University of Southern California
has established school of forestry, and Sc
cured lecturer on "The Sanitary Value
of Forests" and one on The Native Trees
of the Country" Baron Won Mueller, of
the Ehytologie Museum of Melbourne,
has ssnt to the State Board of Forestry
packages of seeds of thirty varieties of
eucalyptus which have never been intro
duced in this country, and they have been
turned over to the gardener of the State
University for preservation. Germany is
anxious to exchange seeds with Us for
those of our choice cone-bearers, and the
French Government is ready to give JUS
the best examples of her pines-in short,
there is no difficulty whatever in provid-
ing trees in multitude and variety at small
cost, and in securing their effective distri-
button among the people. What is needed
is legislative action to supplement what
was done by the Central Pacific Railroad
Company a few years ago, by Mr. Miller,
General Howard and Mr.. Sutro, and re-
Gently by the University of Southern Cali
fornia, and what the people are now ready
to do in this important matter. We are
not of so little faith in the good sense OF
our people as is the Stockton Independent
which was so discouraged in August last
as to say:
The tastes and habits of Californians viii
have to undergo a wonderful change before
The average Californian would rather fellten
trees than plant one. To him tree is an I'M
slightly thing and an object of detestation.
The people of California have under
gone change of sentiment on this sub
ject already, and the time is full ripe for
action by the Legislature to encourage
forest growth and to punish for forest
destruction.
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FALSE IDEAS ABOUT THE STATE UNI
VERSITY.

Says a San Francisco contemporary IN
defending the University: "The State
University suffers from a popular fancy
that it is merely place where young peo-
pie are refined, out of sympathy with the
common things Ct life" But the fact is
disclosed by the "Blue and Gold that
the graduates of the State University have,
in seven cases out of ten, gone into the
practical business of life where there is
need for pluck, hard-knock taking and
hard-knock giving. That record, which
we have been examining critically, dis
closes these young men to be hard at work
in mechanics, business honorable profess
sions, hard labor, honest head and hand
work of all kinds, from plunging into for
ests primeval with theodolite and chain,
to holding the rule to the design for the
motor that gives life to the steely
enginery of labor; from the close air of the
mine to the attitudes of the snowy nights,
where steady hands and cool heads freight
human lives over and through perilous
mountains We say that Blue and Gold"
proves that from packing cellar to sail loft,
from counting-house to pulpit, from school
house to farm-yard, from the mine to the
bar of the Court, from the engine room to
the Bench, the contractors ditch to the
bankers Office, the sons of the State Uni
versity, seven cut of ten, are at work, hard,
telling, man-making, State-building work.
The product of the University is good
Let us get away from the idea that it is
making literary handles or fostering blind
worship of culture. 1t is a product of our
civilization, and one to be loftily and en-
Enthusiastically proud of. 1t ought to be
taken up off of its knees and made indie
pendent, and free from dependency upon
the within of appropriations. This people
believe in the institution, and do not en-
terrain the idea that it isshooting over the
head of any one fit to hold any relation to
the citizenship of the State.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

The involved. not to say queer, ruling of
Lieutenant Governor Daggett IN the matter OF
the motion of Senator Moffitt, touching the
adoption of rules for the government OF the
Senate, continues to be the subject of criticism
and plenty of banter, which most of the Demo
Gratis do not take calmly. The decision that the
rules adopted did not apply to temporary organ
ization, is by the adverse critics correctly pro
nounced qualification by the Lieutenant Gov
ernor, since he went back on his decisions
of two years ago. when he held that a two thirds
vote was necessary to amend the rules OF the
Senate. The Republicans elaim-and some of
the lead ng Democrats admit it-that only the
power exercised by mere force of numbers
served to wrest from the Republicans the right
to name the committees, and this deprivation
was, after the adoption OF the rules, made posi-
BILE only by the ARBITRARY act of the Lieutenant
Governor. The parliamentary skill and fore
sightedness of Senator Vrooman, who led the
Republican fight in the issue, receive high and
warm commentator, and are frankly confessed
by his Democratic colleagues, who know that
under the law of the Senate he was in the right
He won his fight calamity, and its fruits were
only wrested from him by force OF superior
numbers. The Democratic majority cannot
afford to win many such hollow victories
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DEMOCRATIC Neutrality-suspicious..

The following communications were handed
to the Speaker OF the Assembly about 10 O'clock
last night;
" H. Jordan Speaker Of he -isseaJty-SIR: In
accordance with your expressed wish, the DEM
oeratic caucus OF the Asss mbly met and Endorsed
the following gentlemen as their choice for the
various committees:
Agriculture-Henry. ohleyer and Matthews OF
san Brnito.
Agricultural, Mining and Mechanics Arts Col
| lege-Mahler shanahan and Bost.
Attaches ard Employees 6ruwer, Mathews OF
Constitutional amendments Granger, Heath
ana Wright.
Experimentation, Lawrence, Mathews Of
/ Tehama and Wright.
| County and County Boundaries-Har Adams,
Shauahan and Barton.
| Crimes and Penaliies-Wright and Brooks.
| County and Township Governments-Reni-
| son Brooks, Morris and Adams.
| Culture and Improvement of Grape Vines
/ Mitchell and Brooks.
| Viaicu'ture and INTERCHANGEABLE Hotch-
| kiss and Mailer.
| En- Observation-Disclosures and Lawrence.
l Eprollment-Britt and Morgan.
| Fish and Game-OGrsdy. Lewis and Bost.
| Federal Relations-Henry OF Butte and Nc
| Lenahan.
Irrigation Wright, Barton, smythe, Renn;
son Bost ard Shanahan-
Roads and Highways-Adams, Henry of sar
| Joaquin and Morgan.
| EIIlss ana Northumberland and Granger
| State Hospita-s-Mathews Of Tehama, Cops
and Young.
| state Library Morris and Rar:On.
! Water Rights and Dralnage-Barton, Wright
| OhIeyer and Nehemiah.
/ silk Cuiturs--Cope and Hotcbkiss.
| Judicia-y-Hart, Wright, Yenable. Heath
| Brooks Granger snd Rennison.
Labor and Capital-Cohen, o'Gady, Mitchell
and Britt.
/ Observation-Disclosures of Tenama-
| Municipal rporaiions-Seayy, Rncker, Col
4 leIs Young of san JOAQUIN and Sturgeon.
| Military AiFasrS-0' Grady and seayy.
! Mines and aining-smythe. Mailer and Nc
Lenahan.
| Public ExpendiiuTes-Bost. Rennisen, Cal
| iaghaa and Shanahan.
Homestead and Land NonoPoly-Nathews oil
san Beni,o, CallaghaIi and Rennison-
acknowledgement of San JoG-
dun end McI.enahan-
Swamp and Overlooked Iands-Adams, Bost,
Morris and Henry OF san joaquin,
Public Morals-Brooks and Rucker.
Printipg-Reagan. Obleyer and Lawrence.
Observation-Disclosures of San Benito and
Toner
Yosemite Yalley-BoS. aud MeIenahan.
Yours ALLEN HENRY, Chairman,
K. NJ LAWRENCE, Secretary.